Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 24

1543 - Death of Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)
1544 - Birth of William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (d. 1603)
1686 - Birth of Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
1734 - Death of Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1794 - Birth of William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (d. 1866)
1803 - Birth of Charles Lucien Bonaparte, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1844 - The first electric telegram is sent by Samuel F. B. Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1949 - Birth of Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
1969 - Death of Willy Ley, German-American rocket scientist (b. 1906)